> > > > udma2 is safe--it is only 33Mhz which is in the range of 32-byte CRCs > > which the drives can do. The 57-byte CRCs required by udma3 and up > > 66-133MHz are beyond the capabilities of the 102 and maybe beyond the > > 80Mb as well; I have not kept up on the product through its most recent > > cycles since they seemed unwilling to change their policies. > > > > Civileme
The bottom line is that the disk is probably safe and kdf needs overhaul. Certainly on that platform with no more than 33MHz udma you are on firm ground, but don't move the disk to a newer platform using 66-133MHz and 80-pin cables. It is OK to move it to a newer platform if you stick with a 40 pin cable. Somewhere a few generations ago like 8.1 there was a utility called drakopt which would run a thorough test of your HD speeds and optimize the setup... It still works, if you have hdparm loaded. But let's make double-sure and run one more test fdisk -l /dev/hdd should show a partition with an 80 G capacity I would recommend using smaller partitions in several categories. SWAP is always good to have on both disks of a pair and The possibility of IDE RAID with RAID0 for /usr to optimize for speed of program loading might not be a bad idea. http://www.geocities.com/civileme/raiddoc.html is a good link for an intro to linux software RAID The computer that made those png diagrams is still in use as my firewall. Civileme
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